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Hace 1 día · The death of King Henry IV of Castile in 1474 set off a struggle for power called the War of the Castilian Succession (1475–1479). Contenders for the throne of Castile were Henry's one-time heir Joanna la Beltraneja , supported by Portugal and France, and Henry's half-sister Queen Isabella I of Castile , supported by the Kingdom of Aragon and by the Castilian nobility.
Hace 4 días · Question IV: What happened between Alexander and Darius III of Persia? Question V: Our “first-hand” account of Alexander’s life is from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives . While Alexander lived in the 4th century BCE, Plutarch was a Greek, later Roman historian, who wrote during the 1st century CE.
Hace 2 días · Estimated to have employed over 100 scholars at its height [8] [9] The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts. [10]
Hace 2 días · Alexander IV continued the policies of Gregory IX and Innocent IV after he succeeded to the papacy in 1254. In practice this led to crusading against the Hohenstaufen dynasty. [98] In the face of a significant low point of the movement in 1274, the Second Council of Lyons began the gathering of ideas to improve crusading organisation and finance.
Hace 2 días · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
Hace 1 día · Edgar Allan Poe and his first cousin, Virginia Clemm (1822–1847) [33] John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 23rd Governor of Mississippi, and his first cousin, Permelia Virginia Winston. Peter A. Porter (1827–1864), lawyer, politician and a Union Army colonel, and his first cousin, Mary Cabell Breckinridge.
Hace 6 días · Vlachs. Vlach ( English: / ˈvlɑːx / or / ˈvlæk / ), also Wallachian (and many other variants [1] ), is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe —south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube.
